Synodic month length 29.47 days

Length of current 239 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 16 minutes. It is 2 hours and 2 minutes longer than next lunation 240 length.

Lunation length shorter than mean

Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 28 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 41 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 11 May 2019 Saturday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠263°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠263°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠296.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon before perigee

12 days after point of apogee on 28 April 2019 at 18:20 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 13 May 2019 at 21:53 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 364 210 km

Moon after ascending node

1 day after its ascending node on 9 May 2019 at 18:50 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 22 May 2019 at 19:12 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

Moon after northern standstill

2 days after previous North standstill on 9 May 2019 at 05:46 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠22.243°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-22.313° in the next southern standstill on 22 May 2019 at 06:41 in ♑ Capricorn.